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Signed Bootloader

I've been hearing a lot of hoopla about a new signed bootloader on the Thunderbolt and on other HTC models going forward. Can anyone clarify this for me?
How different is the Thunderbolt's level of protection from what was employed on the Desire HD / Z / G2? Is there anything that *won't* be possible in terms of custom ROMs on the Thunderbolt that was previously possible on other HTC devices? I'm not even in the USA but this question may ultimately be useful for the Incredible S, Desire S, etc.

We have s-off so u need not to worry bout a signed bootloader
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Disaster avoided. Thank you TeamAndIRC

Aha okay, so a Thunderbolt with S-OFF is equally hackable to any prior HTC phone with S-OFF? Good to know.
Whereas Motorola phones don't seem to have any equivalent to S-OFF

All this talk of signed boot loaders is nonsense.... this is nothing new and some sites are creating drama so they can get add clicks on their site. Sad when they have to stir **** up for no reason.
I'm not sure of any phone besides the droid one and nexus that haven't had signed boot loaders. nonsense games to make money from android users clicking their adds.

R1lover said:
All this talk of signed boot loaders is nonsense.... this is nothing new and some sites are creating drama so they can get add clicks on their site. Sad when they have to stir **** up for no reason.
I'm not sure of any phone besides the droid one and nexus that haven't had signed boot loaders. nonsense games to make money from android users clicking their adds.
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Hit me up on irc, I think there is some confusion. The bootloaders are checking for signatures on boot.img and recovery.img. Certainly different and new to HTC.
If they are not signed, you get this if you try to boot into recovery
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
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and are locked out of using the recovery until you fix it, or set s-off, or worse if its your boot partition the phone won't boot into android until you RUU it.
They are certainly real, and new. To date only the thunderbolt, incredible s and the incredible 2 are the only known devices with them.
Wit the ENG hboot, you don't have to worry about this issue. It doesn't verify the signature (hence our need to use it).
- TeamAndIRC

And from my understanding, the only reason S-Off was achieved so quickly with the Thunderbolt is because its firmware is based on that of the Desire HD and still contained a known exploit. The Incredible S/2 firmware has patched this exploit, so another one will need to be found.
I really don't like the direction HTC is going. If this holds true, the Thunderbolt will probably be my last non-Nexus phone. Glad I decided to go with only a 1-year contract.

I guess my point was the incredible was the same way and is a year old now, so why is this considered new?
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I am by far non a crypto expert, but here is the best example I can provide, without having to do a restore on my own phone right now.
boot.img one is a HTC made thunderbolt kernel (not released) that can from a engineering device, and did not use signed images.
boot_signed.img one is the stock thunderbolt kernel that comes with the thunderbolt.
Same thing here but with stock recovery v/s unreleased dev recovery.
The release devices carry signatures, but not engineering devices.
Hope this helps some.

R1lover said:
I guess my point was the incredible was the same way and is a year old now, so why is this considered new?
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Incredible did not carry signed images, check a stock ruu yourself.

stoli412 said:
And from my understanding, the only reason S-Off was achieved so quickly with the Thunderbolt is because its firmware is based on that of the Desire HD and still contained a known exploit. The Incredible S/2 firmware has patched this exploit, so another one will need to be found.
I really don't like the direction HTC is going. If this holds true, the Thunderbolt will probably be my last non-Nexus phone. Glad I decided to go with only a 1-year contract.
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Not exactly, it did not contain the vulnerability as is, we had to introduct with with outdated firmware.

jcase said:
Incredible did not carry signed images, check a stock ruu yourself.
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If you say so.... but I thought it was the same way.... we went through hell until they gained a full s=off.

R1lover said:
I guess my point was the incredible was the same way and is a year old now, so why is this considered new?
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To double check, I went and grabbed a incredible stock image.
The incredible has s-on ans nand locking as stock, but does not have signatures in boot/recovery and does not check for signatures.
Once you had root and nand unlock on the incredible, you could freely write to recovery without worry.
Hope this helps clear some confusion.

R1lover said:
If you say so.... but I thought it was the same way.... we went through hell until they gained a full s=off.
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You guys needed s-off to maintain nand unlock (similar to our need for emmc unlock) at all times. Else you could only write to /system while in recovery.

I hope someone with a better grasp of this than I will chime in and explain it in better detail.

It's all good... you showed me the pudding... lol :beer
As long as I'm rooted with my current phone.. all is well lol I have another year to worry about locked down crap... until then... happy root!

cmstlist said:
Is there anything that *won't* be possible in terms of custom ROMs on the Thunderbolt that was previously possible on other HTC devices?
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This is the question I would like to be answered...
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dclay89 said:
Is there anything that *won't* be possible in terms of custom ROMs on the Thunderbolt that was previously possible on other HTC devices?
This is the question I would like to be answered...
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Not as long as you keep s-off.

dclay89 said:
This is the question I would like to be answered...
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No... unless LTE radio and 3G/Voice simultaneous give us problems. Otherwise this phone is no different that its Cousin EVO or Desire HD. Eng S-OFF technically can be classified as a Developers Device Bootloader. With a developer bootloader, the possibilities are endless
This phone is fully *unlocked* just like all other HTC android phones (except for the Incredible S/2 YET)

andrew8806 said:
No... unless LTE radio and 3G/Voice simultaneous give us problems. Otherwise this phone is no different that its Cousin EVO or Desire HD. Eng S-OFF technically can be classified as a Developers Device Bootloader. With a developer bootloader, the possibilities are endless
This phone is fully *unlocked* just like all other HTC android phones (except for the Incredible S/2 YET)
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So unless a Eng bootloader gets leaked for them it could be awhile before they get cracked if ever correct?
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[Q] Froyo------>Gingerbread BUT!!!!

Ok So back in the day I used the ace hack kit so I was happily on froyo me specs are:
Android Version 2.2.1
Kernel Version 2.6.32.21-g3c08447
Software Number Inspired DHD AFR003
so now as I remember I did the s-off rooted and unlocked but need to go back to stock firmware (IDK just want it) so att made the update to gingerbread so my question is:
If I update like the way the htc page tells me to will it brick my phone ?
and if not what do I have to do?
ive just been out of it and im a little back behind but I find posts with other things than this thanks in advance guys!

Check out this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208507
It has all the instructions and tools you need to return to stock.

but I cant just execute the htc update and what would happen my main concern is messing up my phone by just updating to the official Gingerbread I am on still on the same specs

Yes you can just flash the gingerbread ruu. You will be stock but still have soff which is fine unless you were going to do some kind of warranty claim then I would suggest gong son aswell

0riginal.mv said:
but I cant just execute the htc update and what would happen my main concern is messing up my phone by just updating to the official Gingerbread I am on still on the same specs
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Do you mean the OTA update, or the RUU from HTC's website? If the former, then no, you can't unless you are running a rock-stock froyo ROM (it will abort before doing anything). If the latter, then yes, you can run it, but it will wipe everything.

RUU_Ace_Gingerbread_S_Cingular_US_2.47.502.7_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_200368_signed.exe
thats the file I really dont care of the features I use im just wondering if i'll mess up my phone plus I just want to know what ill keep and what ill lose in terms of the s-off and I know ill lose the unlock

0riginal.mv said:
RUU_Ace_Gingerbread_S_Cingular_US_2.47.502.7_Radio_12.56.60.25_26.10.04.03_M_release_200368_signed.exe
thats the file I really dont care of the features I use im just wondering if i'll mess up my phone plus I just want to know what ill keep and what ill lose in terms of the s-off and I know ill lose the unlock
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Flashing ghe htc OTA update while you are S-Off will not work. Found this out the hard way back when I first started messing with phones
You can un root your phone and put S-On and update it to gingerbread but I don't think you'll be able to root it as I believe the hack kit requires you to downgrade firmware anyway.
Best bet is to just flash a gingerbread rom. If your trying to keep sense I would suggest the rom virtuous unity.
Has sense 3.0 with a load of new features and is gingerbread I believe.
Either way, best of luck. Hope this helps
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Thanks Solved My Answer Now To Move On To Virtuous Unity

0riginal.mv said:
Thanks Solved My Answer Now To Move On To Virtuous Unity
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No problem, and you won't regret it I promise!
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Update problem

Hi everyone, need some help.
Just updated hboot from 6.98.0002 to 7.00.2002 and now I have *Locked*
7.00.2002 S-OFF and stuck at HTC logo...
So is there any way to get back to 6.98?

Loki14 said:
Hi everyone, need some help.
Just updated hboot from 6.98.0002 to 7.00.2002 and now I have *Locked*
7.00.2002 S-OFF and stuck at HTC logo...
So is there any way to get back to 6.98?
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7.00.002 ??!!
That's the first time i've come across that hboot version! Can you give some more details regarding how you got this hboot version?
And you say you have S-Off, with *Locked* ?? You're turning my world upside down man... either you're confused, or I am!!

Loki14 said:
Hi everyone, need some help.
Just updated hboot from 6.98.0002 to 7.00.2002 and now I have *Locked*
7.00.2002 S-OFF and stuck at HTC logo...
So is there any way to get back to 6.98?
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*removed due to epic *donthaveaclueness* lol gonna read up a bit i guess

Here it is)
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Saga s-off locked, 7.00.2002)
Отправлено с моего Desire S

Loki14 said:
Here it is)
Saga s-off locked, 7.00.2002)
Отправлено с моего Desire S
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Awesome!! I'm thoroughly confused now!
This is new to me! Anybody have a clue what's up with this development?
@OP, please, please tell me how'd you manage to do this?

enigmaamit said:
@OP, please, please tell me how'd you manage to do this?
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So, I used to have 6.98 revolutionary s-off.I downloaded hboot 7.00.2002 from 4pda forum. Flashed it through fastboot,that's all)
Отправлено с моего Desire S

enigmaamit said:
Awesome!! I'm thoroughly confused now!
This is new to me! Anybody have a clue what's up with this development?
@OP, please, please tell me how'd you manage to do this?
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The only thing running through my mind is sense ICS build but it seems far fetched.
BTW, that bug is getting to me!!

dan-fish said:
The only thing running through my mind is sense ICS build but it seems far fetched.
BTW, that bug is getting to me!!
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LoL!! Ya, ben_pyett also PM'ed me about the bug!
BTW, what's stranger than the hboot version, is that he has a Locked bootloader, while being S-Off! What's up with that?
Has his phone mutated??!!

I guess it is modified version of 2.00.2002 which has written *LOCKED* on top of it too (see here) so it is not a concern.
But better download and flash 2.00.2002 from the development thread here - it is tested and considered harmless unlike yours...
Or even better - use 0.98.2000 - you will get your full cache size with it, not like with the new one

amidabuddha said:
I guess it is modified version of 2.00.2002 which has written *LOCKED* on top of it too (see here) so it is not a concern.
But better download and flash 2.00.2002 from the development thread here - it is tested and considered harmless unlike yours...
Or even better - use 0.98.2000 - you will get your full cache size with it, not like with the new one
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But how is an S-off phone Locked?? What is locked, if the phone is S-off??!!

enigmaamit said:
But how is an S-off phone Locked?? What is locked, if the phone is S-off??!!
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I have tried to enter this field some time ago.
basically there are a bunch of guys who managed to make a reverse engineering on the bootloader files - this caused the birth of bootloaders for Desire S with versions 6.98.1000 and 6.98.1002. One of them had AlpharevX written on top, the other one had Revolutionary if my memory recalls me right. They had the engineering abilities in the form of Security OFF, more fastboot subcommands and protection from overwriting.
Then the 2.00.2002 appeared in the forums, clearly not a product of the Revolutionary team. But in each case (it can be an official leak or modified by another hacker) the guy who did it just has not replaced the top text (the particular string of code) with his custom one. So it remained *LOCKED* just like the stock 2.00.0002 bootloader, but with Eng abilities...
And now we see its clone here, but I cannot say what difference or benefits can it bring over the classic 2.00.2002 one...

@enigmaamit - Don't fry your brain with all this crap Anyone who s-off's via Revolutionary or XTC Clip and updates to hboot 2.00.2002 gets this. The "LOCKED" indicates the bootloader is not unlocked via HTC Dev.com but in our case, the security has been turned off, so the lock is useless. The lock can be easily bypassed, so it's possible to flash stuff with an S-On phone too, but since the security flag gives a security error if anything not signed by HTC is flashed, and prevents the phone from booting, the security needs to be turned off.
@Others - A google search told me that this is a bootloader released on a Russian forum. Nothing to get excited about, definitely not ICS related
@enigmaamit, again - Seriously, remove that bug. You clearly placed it there to "bug" us, you've fulfilled your purpose. I almost smashed my monitor with a magazine when i first saw it

shrome99 said:
@enigmaamit, again - Seriously, remove that bug. You clearly placed it there to "bug" us, you've fulfilled your purpose. I almost smashed my monitor with a magazine when i first saw it
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Not happening!! I'm enjoying this too much!!
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shrome99 said:
@enigmaamit - Don't fry your brain with all this crap Anyone who s-off's via Revolutionary or XTC Clip and updates to hboot 2.00.2002 gets this. The "LOCKED" indicates the bootloader is not unlocked via HTC Dev.com but in our case, the security has been turned off, so the lock is useless. The lock can be easily bypassed, so it's possible to flash stuff with an S-On phone too, but since the security flag gives a security error if anything not signed by HTC is flashed, and prevents the phone from booting, the security needs to be turned off.
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Thank you for that insight... things are complicated enough with all the S-on, S-off, HTCDevil Unlock, RUU, Misc_version, CID, Goldcard, the infamous pain-in-the-rhetorical eMMC f***k-up and what not... and now this... Ughhh!! Things just keep getting more and more mysterious with each passing week! Sometimes i just feel like migrating to a Samsung, load up Odin, and forget about this non-sense!!

You kidding me??? Samsung is simple? The ROMs are baseband specific, and the wrong baseband causes issues, that's the reason why everyone is asking "What Radio is compatible with this ROM"? Also, i told you not to fry your brain with this crap, you have no reason whatsoever to have to know this. Ignorance is bliss......
Also, if you're like, you could never give up HTC Sense, so you must deal with this non-sense

Guys S-OFF/S-ON and LOCKED/UNLOCKED/RELOCKED are two different things. I have a phone that is s-offed with xtc clip. I flashed the latest RUU and I have the 2.** hboot and I'm LOCKED but yet still S-OFF.
EDIT: But the way, is this "full cache" thing is really important? I mean I can see that I always has like 90% of cache free anyway.
Sent from my HTC Desire S

shrome99 said:
You kidding me??? Samsung is simple? The ROMs are baseband specific, and the wrong baseband causes issues, that's the reason why everyone is asking "What Radio is compatible with this ROM"? Also, i told you not to fry your brain with this crap, you have no reason whatsoever to have to know this. Ignorance is bliss......
Also, if you're like, you could never give up HTC Sense, so you must deal with this non-sense
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IMO nothing is simple in the world till you learnt. I M using Samsung and believe me its so simple for flashing anything. I owned DS little while ago. this is my first Htc phone. currently reading stickies. Simply I found little hard, coz I don't know much about RUU, Locked boot loader etc.

dmatik said:
EDIT: But the way, is this "full cache" thing is really important? I mean I can see that I always has like 90% of cache free anyway.
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You are absolutely right. But why waste 150 MB? And for the record - I had the famous "Error: cannot mount cache" only once (not "fried" eMMC luckily), when I was using the new 2.00.2002 bootloader close to the date of its release. I am on 0.98.2000 since and had never encountered this issue again. And I have done quite some flashing...

amidabuddha said:
You are absolutely right. But why waste 150 MB? And for the record - I had the famous "Error: cannot mount cache" only once (not "fried" eMMC luckily), when I was using the new 2.00.2002 bootloader close to the date of its release. I am on 0.98.2000 since and had never encountered this issue again. And I have done quite some flashing...
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Yep, flashed today the 0.98.2000 ENG hboot. To save some space for the cache
Sent from my HTC Desire S

shrome99 said:
You kidding me??? Samsung is simple? The ROMs are baseband specific, and the wrong baseband causes issues, that's the reason why everyone is asking "What Radio is compatible with this ROM"? Also, i told you not to fry your brain with this crap, you have no reason whatsoever to have to know this. Ignorance is bliss......
Also, if you're like, you could never give up HTC Sense, so you must deal with this non-sense
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yeah samsung is not simple. Installing a custom ROM was a pain on a friends S2 because there seemed to be a million ways to do it. At least with the Desire S it was clear what needed to be done.

dan-fish said:
yeah samsung is not simple. Installing a custom ROM was a pain on a friends S2 because there seemed to be a million ways to do it. At least with the Desire S it was clear what needed to be done.
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It is as simple as eating cake
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HTC One S - RUU 2.35 HERE!

RUU 2.35 (TMOBILE US) for the HTC One S is now available at long last.
If you've been having trouble getting back to stock, but can't due to having HBOOT 1.14.0004 from the latest OTA... RUU 2.35 is finally here to get you back to the latest US T-Mobile Stock image.
Thanks to dave87everett for being able to get RUU 2.35. Here is the link to his post at HTCOneForum.com
And his direct link to the file.
I also put it up at FileHosting.org and FileDropper.com in case there are problems with that first link.
FYI: The first page in the HTCOneForum thread I linked above has instructions for getting back to stock.
I can confirm this works as I'm finally back to stock after a month of frustration... here is a screenshot.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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Enjoy!
-- Not sure if Q&A is the right forum to post this. If General is a better place, can a moderator please move it. Thanks --

What would happen if I used this with mine. I'm with Bell.
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what's new?
and is quite interesting how it will affect Home Button Issue, will it fix it or make even worse?
will see by the time

Well considering you didn't post a question...yeah general seems like the right spot
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skeeter1563 said:
What would happen if I used this with mine. I'm with Bell.
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Bell is part of T-Mobile..
Pulsik said:
what's new?
and is quite interesting how it will affect Home Button Issue, will it fix it or make even worse?
will see by the time
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It has Sense 4.1 and Android 4.0.4 for T-Mobile users.
Spastic909 said:
Well considering you didn't post a question...yeah general seems like the right spot
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Agreed.
Sent from my HTC One S running ViperOneS!

Currently I have HBoot 1.09, If I install this will it update my HBoot? thx

cat2115 said:
Currently I have HBoot 1.09, If I install this will it update my HBoot? thx
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Yes. It will update it to 1.14.
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invasion2 said:
Yes. It will update it to 1.14.
Sent from my HTC One S running ViperOneS!
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If I go back to this would it make wifi to work on all other rooms other than trickdroid 7.0?
If not what do I need to make that work ???
Thank you for any help

I LOVE YOU!!! I was starting to go crazy thank you so much!

johnyguy said:
If I go back to this would it make wifi to work on all other rooms other than trickdroid 7.0?
If not what do I need to make that work ???
Thank you for any help
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This will get you back to stock (2nd OTA update v2.35) It's the factory ROM and it'll work just like you bought it and did the latest 2 OTA updates.
What I believe broke Wifi for certain ROMS was that 2nd OTA update with upgraded Hboot to 1.14 (and maybe a radio or something). This RUU is Hboot 1.14 which is the same as getting that second update.
A lot of the custom ROMs Wifi didn't work with this...... and if this was the reason your Wifi wasn't working, this update won't help. I'm not sure if there were different Wifi issues with different solutions.
I had the same problem with the Wifi not working on the CM nightlies and a lot of other ROMs. The only ROM that I was able to use Wifi with was the Unofficial AKOP Jelly Bean Rom. So you may try that.
Hope that helps.

mattssn said:
I LOVE YOU!!! I was starting to go crazy thank you so much!
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Haha. Thank the guy who posted it here. I was so excited that I even sent him $10 to help offset what it cost him to get it. (Made sure it worked first). I've been waiting for it for a month or so.
I wanted to try Jelly Bean, and while the customs ROM's are great (I tried 5 or 6 of them), they just aren't ready for use as a daily driver yet in my opinion. Big issues for me being the HTC camera (which is really good), and battery life (I was dying by mid afternoon rather then bedtime which was a deal breaker for me). Otherwise a few of the custom ROMs are pretty solid.
So I decided to go back to stock. Opps, Uh, yeah, not so easy with this phone if you did the latest OTA before rooting.
After hours of research, I finally found the answer. I could supercid and do the Euro RUU, or wait for the T-Mobile RUU 2.35. I didn't want to go Euro route, though I almost was ready to before I found this. I really wanted to get back to stock T-Mobile because I saw that HTC announced they are releasing the official Jelly Bean update this month. Though I'm guessing it'll be longer for T-Mobile to get it tweaked with their junk and push it out.
Finally on Monday I found that thread I mentioned above. The guy said he was working on getting the RUU. The next day he posted it. I was like "OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!" just like you :victory:. Been back on it for 24 hours now. Stock is faster, way more stable, everything works, and the battery life is much much better than any of the ROMs I tried.
Glad I'm not the only who who's super excited

invasion2 said:
Yes. It will update it to 1.14.
Sent from my HTC One S running ViperOneS!
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Also, once it updates, you can't go back to previous hboot versions and the older RUU's won't work. Only RUU 2.35 or later will (I think the latest EURO one works too).

Thanks for this, will come in handy if I need to exchange four warranty. Thanks again.
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Thank the freaking lord. I was about to go insane with no wifi. You are awesome!

Hi,
can this RUU be used on S3 device from Europe to get 4.0.4 and sense 4.1 ???

You posted this the day after I gave up on this RUU and used supercid to flash the latest EU -_-
Oddly enough, I was having wifi troubles on my 1.06 (or was it 09?) HBOOT but it's working flawlessly now. Before it would rapidly switch back and forth between scanning, connecting, and disconnected. After I flashed the EU, I started loading custom ROMs and Viper, TrickDroid, and CM10 have all worked much better with this HBOOT/radio than before. Thanks for this RUU though, I'm sure it'll come in handy for when T-mobile finally pushes JB OTA. Most of us will have to return to this to flash it I'm sure

thanks, I wait so long...
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Can I install this rom on a German t-mobile variant?
Hi,
First of all, thanks for the upload!
I have two small questions if someone can help...
1. I have a German T-Mobile One s with software version 1.77.111.5.
Can I install this US stock Rom on my phone?
2. If so, where can I get instructions how to install it?
Thanks!

Would I be okay using this with i wireless?
My device is unbranded.
russor5 said:
Hi,
First of all, thanks for the upload!
I have two small questions if someone can help...
1. I have a German T-Mobile One s with software version 1.77.111.5.
Can I install this US stock Rom on my phone?
2. If so, where can I get instructions how to install it?
Thanks!
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Try this bud!
http://fotadl.htc.com/OTA_Ville_U_I...1.78.401.2_release_271130unb1vtlbbuv42jp3.zip
That should work!
Instructions, you should google it or find it on youtube!

I just can't wait until jb comes
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HTC One Mini 4.4.2 s-off?

Are there anyways that you can s-off at 4.4.2? With 2.22hboot? If yes, is it possible to remove tampered also? And can you return to s-on with fastboot oem writesecureflag 3?

Try revone can't hurt
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cmvienneau said:
Try revone can't hurt
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I have tried revone. It gives error 1 instead of 2 when I use ./revone -P

Did ya try firewater?
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cmvienneau said:
Did ya try firewater?
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Does it work for one mini? Or it works for most of the htc?

cmvienneau said:
Did ya try firewater?
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Nope, it doesn't work either ;( I really want to s-off again. Anymore suggestions?

abzboi said:
Nope, it doesn't work either ;( I really want to s-off again. Anymore suggestions?
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Try to downgrade the hboot to 2.21 that may give back the ability to S-OFF your One Mini

scotty2000 said:
Try to downgrade the hboot to 2.21 that may give back the ability to S-OFF your One Mini
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Any guide on how to? If I s-off with hboot 2.21, can I upgrade it back to hboot 2.22 so it works?

Hey guys, maybe try Ramrunner to s-off.

abzboi said:
Any guide on how to? If I s-off with hboot 2.21, can I upgrade it back to hboot 2.22 so it works?
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You need to have the Firmware.zip with the hboot 2.22 to upgrade again, you will find it in the OTA file for example.
You did not say anything about the rom / OTA version (cidnum) that is installed on your mini, but you will need the exact version from the CID, that is now displayed on your Mini !!! For example HTC__001 !
I do not have the hboot 2.22, but i did a firmware flash from hboot 2.21 to hboot 2.19 and back again to hboot 2.21 so I think it should work, but I am S-OFF already !!!
Maybe there is someone around here with experiance of hboot 2.22 and knows which kitkat version/OTA has the needet frimware.zip file.
I only know about the different hboots 2.19 and 2.21 because I flashed these to get my 4.4.2 update.
So be sure you have your version of files that you have now and want back after S-OFF
Try this
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip firmware.zip (maybe there is a notice that you should do this a second time, then you net to type line 2 again!)
fastboot reboot
As I am not an expert, I don´t know for sure if that works, sorry

You really don't even need s-off? Only thing its good for is mess in **** up.lol
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cmvienneau said:
You really don't even need s-off? Only thing its good for is mess in **** up.lol
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I have stock AT&T rooted. Just took the ota and rooted. Not sure how I can extract the hboot now. But there are apps like busybox that I can't install because I'm not s-off
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abzboi said:
I have stock AT&T rooted. Just took the ota and rooted. Not sure how I can extract the hboot now. But there are apps like busybox that I can't install because I'm not s-off
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There are versions on play store of busy box that install from recovery. Maybe "busybox on the rails".
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Use a custom rom busy box is preinstalled
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abzboi said:
Are there anyways that you can s-off at 4.4.2? With 2.22hboot? If yes, is it possible to remove tampered also? And can you return to s-on with fastboot oem writesecureflag 3?
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I can confirm rumrunner will work.
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I can confirm rumrunner will work.
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Yea, sorry for not telling you. I already s-off it with rumrunner. I just had to flash a different rom that has unsecured kernel. Thanks though. And also ty for ur ruu extracted files. I downloaded it and flashed the hboot then took the ruu back a while ago when my phone didn't work.

Ive been trying ages to s-off my rooted HTC One Mini (m4) just so I can removed the startup sound, and move some notification sounds into the system notification folder and do other things with the system and remove some bloatware. Here is my setup:
HTC one Mini (M4) Rooted
Stock ROM - Meteor Ireland
Version: 4.3 HTC sense Version 5.5
HBoot: 2.21 0000
Tried Fire Water looks like its going through motions and then says whelp phone is not supported DO NOT COME TO IRC ASKING FOR UPDATES OR ETAS! ... if we are able to fix this issue, it will be announced ********** ********** bye bye.....sorry it didn't work out
Then I tried revone but that failed error = 1 after typing ./revone -P
im stuck now, dunno what to do/try - I dont really want to go down road of wiping/installing different rom if i can help it - phone is too good to brick!

andy_from_ireland said:
Ive been trying ages to s-off my rooted HTC One Mini (m4) just so I can removed the startup sound, and move some notification sounds into the system notification folder and do other things with the system and remove some bloatware. Here is my setup:
HTC one Mini (M4) Rooted
Stock ROM - Meteor Ireland
Version: 4.3 HTC sense Version 5.5
HBoot: 2.21 0000
Tried Fire Water looks like its going through motions and then says whelp phone is not supported DO NOT COME TO IRC ASKING FOR UPDATES OR ETAS! ... if we are able to fix this issue, it will be announced ********** ********** bye bye.....sorry it didn't work out
Then I tried revone but that failed error = 1 after typing ./revone -P
im stuck now, dunno what to do/try - I dont really want to go down road of wiping/installing different rom if i can help it - phone is too good to brick!
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Rumrunner will s-off your device even after 4.4.2 update.
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cmvienneau said:
Rumrunner will s-off your device even after 4.4.2 update.
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well what dya know tried rum runner (soju.exe) again today an got a whole lot of new words like 'hmm cap is on tighter than expected' (didnt get that yesterday when I tried it out) and I think (not sure until I try to right to system file later) that it might have done it!
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

My custom kernel has selinux disabled so there's really no need for s-off.
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